Improvement in farm-gate supports



S. G. HOLYOKE. Farm-Gate $upp 0rt.

No. 215,925. Patented May27, 1879.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR.

ATTORNEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL G. HOLYOKE, OF GALESBURG, ASSIGNOR TO WILLIAM F. LAIRD, OF

SAME PLACE, AND BOOKER PIGKREL, OF WATAGA, ILLINOIS, ONE- FOURTH TO EACH.

IMPROVEMENT IN FARM-GATE SUPPORTS.

gpecification forming part of Letters Patent No. 2] 5.925, dated May 27, 1879; application filed February 5, 1879.

To all whom it may concern: two arms, D D. F is a pulley, journaled 011 Be it known that I, SAMUEL Gr. HOLYOKE, an axial bolt, G, which is held in the lower of Galesburg, in the county of Knox and State ends of the arms D by a nut, 9, so that the of Illinois, have invented certain new and usepulley can be readily and easily removed by ful Improvements in Farm-Gate Supports; simply removing the nut g and taking out the and I do hereby declare that the following is a bolt G. full, clear, and exact description of the inven- It will be seen that when the bracket Ois tion,which willenableothers skilledinthe art to secured to the gate-post, as shown at Fig. 1' which it appertains to make and use the same, of the drawings, the gate may be easily and reference beinghad to the accompanying drawquickly put in working position, as shown ings, and to letters of reference marked thereat same figure, by removing the pulley F and on, which form a part of this specification, in placing one of the horizontal gate-bars bewhichtween the arms D and then replacing the Figure 1 is a perspective view of my impulley. proved gate. Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspec- The gate may be opened by Sliding it backtive view of the hanger alone. Fig. 3 is averward about half its length on the pulley F, tical sectional view of Fig. 2. and then swinging it around on the jour This invention relates to that class of gates nal d. which are opened by slidingthem back about This hanger may be easily and quickly atone-half of their length and then swinging tached to any ordinary gate-post, and an orthe gate around; and consists in improvements dinary gate be readily and easily connected 1 in the hanger, to facilitate attaching the gate with the hanger, and the journal, being prothereto, and to prevent snow and sleet from tected from sleet and snow, will not be affected affecting the working of the gate. thereby.

Referring to the drawings by letters, the What I claim as new, and desire to secure same letter indicating the same part in the by Letters Patent, is different views, A represents a gate, and A 1. In combination with a sliding and swing- A posts, constructed and arranged as shown ing gate and a gate-post, a hanger constructin the drawings, or in any manner common to ed with a journal, (I, by which it is swiveled this class of gates. B represents the hanger, to a bracket, G, and with two arms, D D, constructed as follows: C is a bracket, with having a removable pulley, F, journaled in arms 0, by which it may be secured to one of their lower ends, substantially as and for the the posts A, and with a vertical hole, 0. D purpose specified. is the gate-carrier proper, its upper end formed 2. In a gate-h an ger, the carrier D, journaled into a journal, d, which passes through the in the bracket 0, and protected by a washer, hole 0, and in which it is retained by a wash- E, substantially as and for the purpose specier, E, which fits closely upon the journal (I, tied. and is held so as to be rotated with the jour- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as nal by a pin, 6. The washer E extends outmy own I aflix my signature in presence of ward over the portion of the bracket in which two witnesses.

the journal at is carried, so as to prevent SAMUEL Gr. HOLYOKE. snow and sleet from collecting about the jour- Witnesses: nal and interfering with its free operations. W. B. RICHARDS,

The lower end of the carrier D is formed into E. A. ALLEN. 

